Cutting Ties and Marrying a Commander: My Adorable Kids Turn the Seventies Military District Upside Down

[1970s setting + sensual allure + flirtation + secret crush + mutual firsts]

On a rainy night, with soaked clothes and a burning medicinal catalyst, Su Wei thought it was just a transaction: she’d trade her body for a chance to survive, then they’d go their separate ways at dawn. She never imagined that the end of her desperate flight from famine would be the courtyard of that very man.

He was a high-ranking special forces commander; she was a destitute orphan living under someone else’s roof. In public, he was cool and restrained, even the hem of his clothes exuding distance. In the cramped storage room, he gripped her waist, his breath scorching and scented with cedar. “Su Wei, run away one more time. I dare you.”

He suffered from severe post-traumatic stress. She was the only thing that could soothe him.

In the end, this dangerous game that began with desire turned tempered steel into something soft enough to wind around a finger.